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Sunday I got back home from Midwinter Gaming Convention https://www.facebook.com/midwintergamingconvention/ which has become an annual, can’t miss event for me. In the past, I’ve gone as booth monkey for Onyx Path, but this year they didn’t need my help at the show, so I volunteered to run three sessions of my convention one-shot, set in…

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The first blog of every year is where I go over a few important points of my blog from the previous year. As usual, there have been a few ups and downs this past year, and despite starting off slowly, traffic to my site finished strong, for which I am pleased. In the first bit…

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I love the snow. It brings solace to my soul every year at a time when I most need it, as the days grow shorter and I get more and more depressed. The blanket of white puts me in mind of far more pleasant than bad things, and I happily stand at a window watching…

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We’ve had these kittens – Mina and Monty – for just over three months. Despite a few unfortunate incidents (more on those later), they have settled in nicely and made themselves a part of our home. Monty has become the house love-bug. If we’re sitting on the couch watching TV, he walks up on our…

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Having quit my part-time day job, I’m having to cut back on convention appearances for 2019. There are several favorites that I wouldn’t miss, but I have to be a little more careful about money for a while. Also, Onyx Path is changing the way they attend the bigger gaming conventions, so they don’t need…

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Just got back this week from attending PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia. My buddy Matt McElroy is employed by Onyx Path, so he and I took a van full of Onyx Path books on the road to stock the company’s booth at the show. The weekend before we left, Chicago got hit with a decent amount…

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Just wrapped up my stint at GameHoleCon. I spent a lot of my weekend running demos of the Scarred Lands material for gamers at the show, and I can’t tell you how tiring it is to run games for strangers. I feel wiped, even though I was sitting for most of the weekend. I had…

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Last year I was invited to be the Gaming Guest of Honor for 2018 at Great Falls Gaming Rendezvous in Great Falls, Montana. I accepted, and ever since had been planning my trip. I’d never been to Montana before (or the Dakotas for that matter) so there were things I surely needed to experience along…

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We’ve been catless now for more than a year. It’s been tough for me to get over; I fell in love with our pair of Siamese cats, Chyna and Buster, and their passing left a gaping wound in my heart. Finally, we’re done with travel — where both of us will be gone — for…

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Cockroaches are everyone’s favorite disgusting pest. I’ve had my share of run-ins with the little buggers, and had to do a fair bit of research on them for a writing project, so I know how deep this particular rabbit-hole can go. When I was working on my scenario, “Bugs in the System,” for Mutants &…